I've been shot by a taser too. But at home on my own time. Being shot in training when its a part of your job and you're being paid for it is a little different than having your life interfered with on your own dime because someone thought they could.
Not completely. The hardware is only half the system as without a good OS you've got about $20 worth of scrap metal. The OS still has to keep the file system stable through power surges and physical abuse, never mind everyday use. Especially when doing large data transfers which it was doing at the time. It also is responsible for being able to recover keeping the data intact and accessible as well. Without data integrity and access the whole point of using computers is lost, might as well keep a paper library and use a slide rule.
Another name for boring is rock solid stable. Been using it since 1994. I haven't lost data yet even after my home was struck by the biggest tornado in the United States (2 1/2 miles wide)(it had friends). I was doing a backup and cleaning out the interior of the case when the tornado struck. I went back to what was left of my town(three tornados went through it)(obliterated) and my house(struck by two tornados) the next afternoon. Put the covers back on and removed the server to my fathers. I then cleaned out the case and powered her up. No problems and thats after the server running for six years straight. She's still running strong four years since that day.
I agree with his problem with invisible program installations. Freebsd and linux are the same when installing applications in not telling you what the name of the run time file is. You can't even look up a man page on the program if you don't know what the run file is. For freebsd its the same headache whether using pkg_add or ports although pkg_add is worse as you can often look in the compile directory in ports to find the actual run file. There needs to be a way to indicate the name of the file to be run, whether in a menu or on the command line so you know what to do after installation. Preferably it should be at the end of a pkg_add or port script.
Except use an unbiased test candidate like his grandma, a real noob, who's never used a computer. All he did was sit a windows user down on ubuntu and gave her common tasks that she does with windows. It's like dozens of other articles. Forget windows users as they've got what they like. Well, they're trained/brainwashed to like it anyway. Besides even many windows users aren't true windows users as windows comes preinstalled on their machines. If you set equivalent installs with a true noob I bet results would be similar. It's complete noobs that ubuntu is aimed at. Ubuntu is different, just like OSX is. Stick someone new to computers on the Ubuntu and see how it goes. I have yet to see a review like that.
isn't defined in the constitution and therefore doesn't exist. Why hasn't every judge just laughed the whole thing out of court and told the administration they have to come clean. It's amazing/horrifying the amount of power the government gives itself that it actually doesn't have.
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Any judge that gives credence to this shit should be tossed into prison for corrupting the constitution/treason given their position and effect.
is this article here? It's just a show of unethical behavior and the obvious. A competitor with a history of backstabbing plays down open source, is this actually news? It certainly isn't new. Wake up editors.
Yes, they are to blame, thats why they have a legal department which should have screamed bloody murder when it started. And yes, they were coerced, just ask the one telco that said no.(denied contracts for doing the right thing) Besides FISA by its very nature is illegal, kind of like the war powers acts, perceived necessary at the time, not necessary anymore. This shit has to be rolled back. The government as it stands is badly out of balance, with the constitution itself isn't far behind unfortunately.
as US citizens we are innocent until proven guilty with all the protections that provides except when we cross the border from another country. Supposedly the government trusts us here, exactly what's changed about us being trusted citizens if we leave and come back.
The *average consumer* is little more than a brat spoiled by microsoft. They grew up with windows knowing that it has become bad for them and are too lazy at this stage to change to an OS that they admit would be better for them. Whining about learning and file editing and that its different. They had to learn windows sometime, install/update drivers for a new toy(ex. ati/nvidia), install new programs, edit documents/registry which is no different than playing with config files, get used to new GUIs (win3.1,95,98,nt,xp,vista). Now exactly what are they bitching about that they haven't done on windows already.
Many of the linux/bsds are even easier the install, use, and are more reliable(ex. look at your inbox full of windows based spam) than windows. How much ass kissing does it take? If you'll bend over and quietly take it for anything the government wants it shouldn't be hard for you to switch OSes. It's not like you'll really be doing anything new, just save money(fewer hardware upgrade cycles, free apps), no/fewer security headaches(security can be expensive too), more trust and control with an OS you can review or ask anyone else you trust to review(confidence factor), more independence(you know the founding idea of this country), and maybe learn something(ahh!!).
I fear for the elections with a population this self-serving, lazy, and outright manipulable. It seems the newer generations are largely about groupspeak/government without question and have little individual initiative to go in any truly individual direction(not red hat vs blue hat, throw the damn hat away) or make the hard independent decisions. I won't get into learning from history as its obvious they haven't,that's assuming they studied it at all. All you had to do was look at how the media covered/sold the democratic candidates and debates to tell you how independent thinking the public/media really is. The public is corporate programmed and won't walk away even though they know it.
This turned into a rant, its true, but still a rant. I also won't apologize for it as its well deserved.
Constitutional guarantees via privacy definitely protect this otherwise the point of any privacy at all is lost. Of course, government would never admit the constitution covers this as then they couldn't rape and pillage the public.
Kind of like that patriotic crap about our fathers "dying for freedom". Bullshit, they died to protect what was theirs and because under other governments they knew they would lose what was theirs. This is the main reason wars are fought. Concepts have little meaning, what you possess and control does. You want proof, just look at every official war and unofficial conflict/genocide/mass crime over the last several hundred years. You will find it's just a bunch of control games.
Then tell me why the Forbes 400 is measured in Billions now. Those rich don't pay for the level of access and control they have. Remember when JFK was president the top rate was 60% and the rich did fine. It was even higher in earlier times. Besides how many in the top bracket actually pay 36%? You're also too focused on one part of taxes, theres sales, gas, and a whole array of taxes that the rich often get breaks on that the low end can't afford to escape from. Ask mister Dell about his homestead exemption if you want an example of abusive government access by the rich. Let's not forget the rich often ram crap laws through the congress that do nothing but rip the rest of us off. Will people please stop just using the income tax as a comparison and use all taxes that are paid(fed income, state income, property, local, sales, gas, etc).
One day, about six years ago, when I was figuring my income tax I decided to see how much total taxes I was paying. I paid %17 income tax at the time but after I added all the other taxes I paid it came to a whopping %45. I wasn't married and had no kids, an average year for expenses. I wanted to find out why I had few expenses(working hard, no life) and still couldn't save diddly.
Look at the whole picture you idiots!! Otherwise you're just spouting BS!!
Forget wikipedia, its information/pages are too easily manipulated by anyone with a self-serving point to make.
Those numbers reflect taxes before tax breaks are taken out. Figure in the tax reductions due to breaks and whatever else and your "rich" actually pay a lot less by per capita then your bottom 50% who are just trying to survive. Besides corporate america are the biggest non-payers.
Like OS X and Freebsd are documented that good? Give me a call when they figure out what all the sysctls do and have a complete list that anyone can find and read. I won't get into up to date. example, look at ports/lang/gcc43 "kern.maxdsiz" sysctl doesn't exist. I've found others as well. And will they please either fix ports systems' "make fetch" where it skips makefiles with errors or pre-conditions or ban them from the makefiles themselves! It'd be nice to keep distfiles locally since the space is cheap.
"You can't ask newbies to install device drivers or recompile the kernel,"
Does anyone update the drivers when you get a new machine? Re-install windows? Get a new game? Or even install a new toy? Newbies will be doing it regardless of which OS you're using. Shove the BS somewhere else.
Maybe the real answer for most of you is to take a nice slow ship, maybe with the family. That or stay home and use the internet for long distance work and stop wasting all that jet fuel. I won't get into environmental damage or risk of death.
Funny, they want the capabilities, actually more than, of a $500 package and active support for nothing. If your needs aren't being met, drop some of your needs. Otherwise, shell out you tightwad. If anything shell out for GIMP to get as good, if they are professionals they are making money, how about paying the toolmaker. Besides who cares if the pros use it or not, the rest of us, and there's more of us, will use GIMP anyway. For most of us, its just an interface difference, get over it. You might just be surprised how much brainpower you have.
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I've been shot by a taser too. But at home on my own time. Being shot in training when its a part of your job and you're being paid for it is a little different than having your life interfered with on your own dime because someone thought they could.
Not completely. The hardware is only half the system as without a good OS you've got about $20 worth of scrap metal. The OS still has to keep the file system stable through power surges and physical abuse, never mind everyday use. Especially when doing large data transfers which it was doing at the time. It also is responsible for being able to recover keeping the data intact and accessible as well. Without data integrity and access the whole point of using computers is lost, might as well keep a paper library and use a slide rule.
Painful? Go back to the kids room(windows) this board is for the adults. Spoiled little brats!!
Another name for boring is rock solid stable. Been using it since 1994. I haven't lost data yet even after my home was struck by the biggest tornado in the United States (2 1/2 miles wide)(it had friends). I was doing a backup and cleaning out the interior of the case when the tornado struck. I went back to what was left of my town(three tornados went through it)(obliterated) and my house(struck by two tornados) the next afternoon. Put the covers back on and removed the server to my fathers. I then cleaned out the case and powered her up. No problems and thats after the server running for six years straight. She's still running strong four years since that day.
I agree with his problem with invisible program installations. Freebsd and linux are the same when installing applications in not telling you what the name of the run time file is. You can't even look up a man page on the program if you don't know what the run file is. For freebsd its the same headache whether using pkg_add or ports although pkg_add is worse as you can often look in the compile directory in ports to find the actual run file. There needs to be a way to indicate the name of the file to be run, whether in a menu or on the command line so you know what to do after installation. Preferably it should be at the end of a pkg_add or port script.
Except use an unbiased test candidate like his grandma, a real noob, who's never used a computer. All he did was sit a windows user down on ubuntu and gave her common tasks that she does with windows. It's like dozens of other articles. Forget windows users as they've got what they like. Well, they're trained/brainwashed to like it anyway. Besides even many windows users aren't true windows users as windows comes preinstalled on their machines. If you set equivalent installs with a true noob I bet results would be similar. It's complete noobs that ubuntu is aimed at. Ubuntu is different, just like OSX is. Stick someone new to computers on the Ubuntu and see how it goes. I have yet to see a review like that.
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Any judge that gives credence to this shit should be tossed into prison for corrupting the constitution/treason given their position and effect.
is this article here? It's just a show of unethical behavior and the obvious. A competitor with a history of backstabbing plays down open source, is this actually news? It certainly isn't new. Wake up editors.
Yes, they are to blame, thats why they have a legal department which should have screamed bloody murder when it started. And yes, they were coerced, just ask the one telco that said no.(denied contracts for doing the right thing) Besides FISA by its very nature is illegal, kind of like the war powers acts, perceived necessary at the time, not necessary anymore. This shit has to be rolled back. The government as it stands is badly out of balance, with the constitution itself isn't far behind unfortunately.
as US citizens we are innocent until proven guilty with all the protections that provides except when we cross the border from another country. Supposedly the government trusts us here, exactly what's changed about us being trusted citizens if we leave and come back.
Many of the linux/bsds are even easier the install, use, and are more reliable(ex. look at your inbox full of windows based spam) than windows. How much ass kissing does it take? If you'll bend over and quietly take it for anything the government wants it shouldn't be hard for you to switch OSes. It's not like you'll really be doing anything new, just save money(fewer hardware upgrade cycles, free apps), no/fewer security headaches(security can be expensive too), more trust and control with an OS you can review or ask anyone else you trust to review(confidence factor), more independence(you know the founding idea of this country), and maybe learn something(ahh!!).
I fear for the elections with a population this self-serving, lazy, and outright manipulable. It seems the newer generations are largely about groupspeak/government without question and have little individual initiative to go in any truly individual direction(not red hat vs blue hat, throw the damn hat away) or make the hard independent decisions. I won't get into learning from history as its obvious they haven't,that's assuming they studied it at all. All you had to do was look at how the media covered/sold the democratic candidates and debates to tell you how independent thinking the public/media really is. The public is corporate programmed and won't walk away even though they know it.
This turned into a rant, its true, but still a rant. I also won't apologize for it as its well deserved.
Federal or local, doesn't matter, with people in control abuse is guaranteed.
NSA's are also illegal by definition, just like FISA, course thats never stopped the government from using them.
Constitutional guarantees via privacy definitely protect this otherwise the point of any privacy at all is lost. Of course, government would never admit the constitution covers this as then they couldn't rape and pillage the public.
Kind of like that patriotic crap about our fathers "dying for freedom". Bullshit, they died to protect what was theirs and because under other governments they knew they would lose what was theirs. This is the main reason wars are fought. Concepts have little meaning, what you possess and control does. You want proof, just look at every official war and unofficial conflict/genocide/mass crime over the last several hundred years. You will find it's just a bunch of control games.
One day, about six years ago, when I was figuring my income tax I decided to see how much total taxes I was paying. I paid %17 income tax at the time but after I added all the other taxes I paid it came to a whopping %45. I wasn't married and had no kids, an average year for expenses. I wanted to find out why I had few expenses(working hard, no life) and still couldn't save diddly.
Look at the whole picture you idiots!! Otherwise you're just spouting BS!!
Forget wikipedia, its information/pages are too easily manipulated by anyone with a self-serving point to make.
Those numbers reflect taxes before tax breaks are taken out. Figure in the tax reductions due to breaks and whatever else and your "rich" actually pay a lot less by per capita then your bottom 50% who are just trying to survive. Besides corporate america are the biggest non-payers.
Like OS X and Freebsd are documented that good? Give me a call when they figure out what all the sysctls do and have a complete list that anyone can find and read. I won't get into up to date. example, look at ports/lang/gcc43 "kern.maxdsiz" sysctl doesn't exist. I've found others as well. And will they please either fix ports systems' "make fetch" where it skips makefiles with errors or pre-conditions or ban them from the makefiles themselves! It'd be nice to keep distfiles locally since the space is cheap.
Click on "yes" you lazy brat. Windows has the same problem when you have/install new hardware or media windows doesn't know about.
"You can't ask newbies to install device drivers or recompile the kernel," Does anyone update the drivers when you get a new machine? Re-install windows? Get a new game? Or even install a new toy? Newbies will be doing it regardless of which OS you're using. Shove the BS somewhere else.
What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." do you not understand?
Maybe the real answer for most of you is to take a nice slow ship, maybe with the family. That or stay home and use the internet for long distance work and stop wasting all that jet fuel. I won't get into environmental damage or risk of death.
Is it just me or isn't that called a monopoly? Maybe the feds should get involved.
Ok, how about tracking them and making sure they don't get a job that allows them to hold power over anyone else ever.
Funny, they want the capabilities, actually more than, of a $500 package and active support for nothing. If your needs aren't being met, drop some of your needs. Otherwise, shell out you tightwad. If anything shell out for GIMP to get as good, if they are professionals they are making money, how about paying the toolmaker. Besides who cares if the pros use it or not, the rest of us, and there's more of us, will use GIMP anyway. For most of us, its just an interface difference, get over it. You might just be surprised how much brainpower you have.